They request an arrest warrant against Julio Borges, Venezuelan opposition leader

( Spanish) –– The Venezuelan Attorney General, Tarek William Saab, announced this Monday at a press conference that “in view of the appearance of new incriminating evidence” an arrest warrant has been requested against the coordinator of Primero Justicia, Julio Borges, who also served as since 2019 as commissioner for Foreign Relations of the interim government of Juan Guaidó.

The order is issued, according to Saab, for his participation in the coup attempt on April 30, 2019, the date on which a civic-military uprising called “Operation Freedom” was carried out. Borges is charged with treason and conspiracy. Saab indicated that a recent video was obtained of Leopoldo López, founder of the opposition party Voluntad Popular, in which he points to Borges and directly links him to the events that occurred on April 30.

is trying to get Julio Borges’ reaction to this new arrest warrant.

The Venezuelan prosecutor, in the same press conference, recalled that there are already two arrest warrants for the man who was also president of the National Assembly, one related to the alleged retention of Venezuelan gold in the Bank of England and another for the alleged planning and financing to attack the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro.